TOBICIS 
!rl»s of tbt Sftlcfh. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
'WaMltlngton. 
President Grant has appointed Thursday, 
Nov. 18, as the National day of thanksgiving and 
prayer. 
Gen. AVillmm W. Belknapp of Iowa, lms been 
appointed Secretary of War and having accepted 
the position will reach the Capital in a few days. 
Postmaster-General Urcsweli is negotiating for 
a reduction of t he postage between this country 
and Great Britain from twelve to six cents. The 
members of Parliament are believed to favor the 
reduction, and the Postmaster-General is conli- 
dent that it will be of material benefit to our 
tnercun til lc i n forests. 
The managers of the Georgia State Fair who 
recently invited the President and his Cabinet 
and all tlie members of Congress to attend their 
exhibition, and then excepted General Itutier 
from the list, liave since requested the Secretary 
of I ho Navy to put a war vessel at the service of 
the distinguished guests. The matter was talked 
over in flic Cabinet, and in consideration of the 
slight to Genera I Holler all th© members declined 
the invitation and the Secretary of the Navy 
declined to furnish the vessel. 
The matter of prize money to FaiTagut’s men 
for tho capture of New Orleans lias been referred 
to a commissioner, who is to take testimony and 
report, to the court. 
General Badeau, Secretary of Legation at Lon* 
don, arrired in Washington on the 9th and hud 
an interview with tho President and Secretary of 
State. lie is believed to have brought.important 
dispatches from Minister Motley. 
The will of General Rawlins has boon admitted 
to probate in the Orphans' Court at. Washington. 
President Grant and Secretary Robeson qualified 
as executors. The deceased Secretary leaves a 
bouse and lot. in Washington and ills lands in 
Cheyenne and Golden City, Wyoming Territory, 
to his wife ami children, and hts homestead in 
Guilford, ill., to his father and mother. 
On the 9th a small torpedo, charged with pow¬ 
der, was found in a Jot of coal delivered to the 
Howard University, it is supposed to have come 
from the mining regions, and not to have been 
put in 1 he coal for any malicious purpose. 
Tiie General Committee ol One llnuflred held 
a meeting on the fifth, and adopted the draft of 
a charter to la) presented to Congress for an 
enactment incorporating the International Ex¬ 
position Association, with a capital of $1,000,000. 
New York, 
Governor Hoffman has directed that a gen¬ 
eral term of the Now York Supreme Court for 
Fourth District, lie held at. JJallston on the 9th of 
November next. 
Near Harpersvtlle, on tho 18th inst„ a loco¬ 
motive and two cars on the Albany and Nusquc- 
hunnah Hid I road were thrown from the track, 
injuring several passengers. 
A fire in Rochester, on the evening of the 9th 
inst., partially destroyed the laboratory and 
workshop of Professor Henry Ward, with his 
mlnornloglcal, zoological and other valuable 
scientific collection*. The loss is estimated at 
$00,000; insured for flo.ooo. 
On tho morning of the 13tli the jail in Char¬ 
lotte, a village near Rochester, was destroyed by 
fire. Two sailors confined in tho prison were 
burned to death. 
On thellth a horse backed down an embank¬ 
ment near Rochester, seriously injuring the 
driver, Win. McMannis, and killing his 11 ti le son, 
aged four years. 
On Sunday, the 10th, at Buffalo, an old fish pod 
tiler, named Crawford, pulled out a pistol and 
fired several charges into a crowd of boys who 
were annoying him. About six of them are re¬ 
ported slightly wounded and some others were 
graz.cd. Crawford was intoxicated at the time, 
and has been arrested. 
The Trans-continental Railroad Convention at. 
Oswego, on the 8th Inst., dismissed the resolu¬ 
tions as reported by the Committee. They set 
forth the necessity for additional means of 
t mns-eontinontal communication ; that the Gov¬ 
ernment should aid i lie oonsl motion of Northern 
and you them Pacific Railroads, and recommend 
the appointment of u committee to organize a 
com puny to build a road from a point between 
Albany and Whitehall, westward, in tho direc¬ 
tion of tho southeast basin of Lake Ontario, to 
be called the New England and Oswego Railway 1 
Companj’. These rcsoinljons were adopted, tho 
Committee appointed, and at tho close of (lie 1 
evening session the Convention adjourned sine < 
die. ■ 
The Troy Times sas’s that John Morrissey, on 1 
arriving at Moohaniosville lost week, and seeing 
tho suffering consequent- upon the flood, at onoc 1 
started a subscription paper and raised eight 1 
liu mired dollars Cor the benefit of poor persons 1 
whose houses had been Bwepl away. Of this sum 1 
lie subscribed five hundred dollars himself. 1 
The famous Biosegal suit against the New Yolk 
Central Railroad was concluded in Rochester on 
the 81 h Inst., the jury bringing in a verdict of ' 
$13,000 for the plaintiff, who was run over by an 1 
engine eleven years ago while crossing a street 1 
in Rochester. The ease has been in the courts 
since that time, and the costs amount to over 1 
$3,000. 
The losses by the great storm in Columbia 1 
county alone are estimated at $2,000,000. ' 
Abner Wood, who killed David lllayner al 
Babcock Corners in July last, has been accquit- 
tod at Albany on the ground of acting in sc I f- 
del'nnec. 1 
Thcbuilding and stock of the Forest port Lum- 1 
ber and Stave Manufacturing Company at Utica ' 
was burned on the 10th. Loss, $15,000. The 
building was owned by John Moore of Syracuse, 
and the fire is thought to have been the work of 
an incendiary. 
Tho body of William Birmingham, terribly j 
mutilated, was found on Monday morning, the 
11th iust., on Hotel street, in Utica, in the rear 
of the Devereux Block- He Is thought to have , 
fallen from the fourth story of the block in 
which he had rooms. ; 
“ Roddy, the Blacksmith," who was arrested in j 
California a few weeks since and brought East, ‘ 
was tried before Recorder Haekctb in the Court 
of General Sessions, in New York City, on the 
8tli inst., on the charge of robbing Lawrence 
Graham. Graham's testimony exculpated the f 
accused. He was acquitted and discharged. i 
The annual election of the officers of the Erie t 
Railroad took place on the 12th, and resulted in 
the choice of nearly the same Board as that of t 
last year. The new Board proceeded to classify 
themselves according to tho law passed last win¬ 
ter, making the classification In such a manner 
that Gould and Fisk wJH remain in office for 
the longest term. 
The California Pioneers dined with their old 
friends and associates residing in New York at 
Delmonico’s on the 13tb, when speeches were 
made by AV. T. Coleman, Gen. McDowell, Sena¬ 
tor Cassorly, Horace Greeley and others. 
The celebration ol' the Anniversary of the 
Cuban Declaration of Independence took place 
on the Hth. In the afternoon the Cuban flag 
was raised in the City Hall Park, and a salute of 
fifty guns fired, during which a gunner had his 
arm blown off. In the evening a mass mooting 
wus held at the Cooper Institute, when addresses 
In English were delivered by Messrs. Duggan, 
Kent, SulUvnu and Iaddy, and in Spaulsh by 
Senors la-mus Agraimont, Palma and Valient©. 
A Cuban ladies' reuuion was also held in Second 
avenue. New York City. 
I)r. C. H. F. Peters or Litchfield Observatory, 
Hamilton College, discovered another asteroid 
on the evening of the 9th inst., this being the 
ninth discovered by him, and making the whole 
number known one hundred and nine. 
At Albion, on the 13th, the dwelling of C. F* 
Foster was destroyed by fire, and Jenny Rey¬ 
nolds, a young woman at work in the house, whs 
burned to death. It is supposed the fire was 
caused by the careless use of kerosene. 
jtlnlne. 
Mn. Atkins, tho Commissioner of Fisheries, 
has just returned from an examination of the 
SL. Croix and Penamaquan Rivers, where lie has 
ordered tho construct ion of fishways. 
Eli Hanson of Cberryfloid recently went into 
li is barn to feed his stock, when the lamp in his 
kerosene lantern exploded, and fired the barn, 
which was destroyed. 
During the great storm of the 4th the Swift 
River rows eight feet in half an hour, by actual 
measurement, arid tlilrty-slx foot between 8 A. 
M. and 8 P. M. 
At East port tho damage done by the great 
storm was immense. All the shipping in the 
harbor was damaged, storehouses were blown 
and nearly all the wharves ruined. For some 
distance along the shore not a building nor a 
wharf remains. Other portions of tlio State also 
suffered very■severely. The .Androscoggin River 
was higher than even In 1820, which was the 
greatest, freshet previously known. 
JfllWSilCfl UNCtt*. 
The American Social Science Association, 
which mot in Boston, on the 13th, elected Samuel 
Eliot, President, and appointed F. B. Sanborn, 
with tho President, to represent (lie Society at 
the International Congress, at the requestof the 
Now York Prison Association. 
On the 13til (lie Boston Board of Trade ap¬ 
pointed a committee of tho most prominent 
businessmen to appear before the Congressional 
Committee now in session in New York, to in¬ 
vestigate the causes of the decline in American 
ocean commerce. 
The Tost! collection of engravings, . resented 
to the Bost on Public Library by Mr. T. G. Apple- 
ton, reached that city by a sailing vessel from 
Leghorn on the 5th inst. 
An unsuccessful attempt was made on the 
morning of the 12t h to rob the National Bank of 
Townsend. A like unsuccessful attempt was al¬ 
so made on Sunday night the 10th to break into 
the National Bank at Uxbridge. 
Nciv Jersey. 
A family of Swedes wore discovered in a 
house in Jersey City, on the fltli inst., slowly 
dying of starvation. A little girl of three was 
already dead, and another girl was so emaciated 
by hunger that her recovery ia considered hope¬ 
less. The fat her and mother of the family were 
both disabled by sickness. They wero relieved 
by the Alms Commissioners. 
Newark held its municipal election on Tues¬ 
day, the 12th Inst. Rtcord, Republican, was 
elected Mayor by two hundred and thirty-eight 
majority 7 over Smalley 7 , Democrat. The Council 
will stand fourteen Democrats to twelve Repub¬ 
licans. 
Pennsylvania. 
Tn e result of the State election, held on Tues¬ 
day, Die 12th inst.) is very close. Governor 
Geary is probably re-eloetad by 7 some 3,000 to 
5,000 majority. Henry AV. AVJlliains is elected to 
the Supreme Bench by about 8,000. The Legis¬ 
lature is still in doubt at the hour of writing. 
The prisoners in the Brooks assassination case, 
Philadelphia, the 8tli inst,, were commit ted in 
diTmill of hail in $20,000, which amounts really 
to $40,000, as the sureties are required (o qualify 
in that amount. Unusual precautions arc neces¬ 
sary to prevent a rescue of tho prisoners, on 
account, or the t hreats of persons interested In 
or in sympathy with them. 
The signal tower of the Mine Hill Railroad, 
near Schuylkill Haven, was dest royed by fire on 
the 12tli. The watphman, Owen Feeney, and his 
wife and two children, were burned to death In 
the tower. A sister-in-law of Feeney's saved 
her life by leaping from a window. 
The Ferantou Republican reports (hat the 
West Pittston shaft, (Knight vein,) on the 30th 
tilt., came very near burning in a manner simi¬ 
lar to Avondale. The men were hoisted out of 
ihe shaft vary rapidly. 
The body of a man named Ilartain, about 
thirty years old. was found on the 9th inst. near 
Morsville, on Ihe Philadelphia and Heading Rail¬ 
road. with his throat and head cut. He had 
evidently boon murdered, but no arrests have 
yet been made. 
Del a tv ii re. 
Tiie Philadelphia, AVilinington and Baltimore 
Railroad has transported 2,115,500 baskets of 
peaches this season, 94,(1S6 being taken to Phila¬ 
delphia, aud 2,012,474 to Jersey City. 
Alary land. 
John Kitts, one hundred and seven years of 
age, has presented to tiie Baltimore City Council 
ft claim for services rendered the city in the Avars 
of tiie Revolution and ol' 1812. 
Tiie Presbytery of Baltimore has voted to ac¬ 
cept the overture of ihe General Assembly for 
tho reunion of the Old and New School Churches. 
The ladies of Baltimore have undertaken tho 
task of raising funds to erect a building for tho 
Maryland State Asylum for Inebriates, which 
was chartered by t lie Legislature nine years ago. 
Virginia. 
The Virginia Legislature on the 8th inst. rati¬ 
fied the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, 
with only slight opposition. An adjournment 
then took place until October IS. 
Tiie ticket agent of Robinson's circus was fa¬ 
tally stabbed in Richmond ou the 8th by a man 
named George Spain, who mistook him for an¬ 
other person. 
Tho Supreme Court of Virginia, consisting en¬ 
tirely of military appointees, adjourned on the 
12th, after making an order that its next term 
would be held in January, unless circumstances 
rendered it unnecessary. By this it is undor- 
' stood that the members of the court believe 
Congress will admit the State in the early part of 
next session, and thus Install the new Supreme 
Court. Attorney General Hoar, it is thought, 
instructed them in tho virtual disbandment. 
Father Perron, the priest in charge of the Ro¬ 
man Catholic Church at Lynchburg, was found 
dead in bis be*! on the 7th lost. His head being 
bruised, suspicion was aroused, and the affair is 
in tho hands Of a Coroner’s jury 7 for investigation. 
Forty-seven Illicit stills, calculated to produce 
over 3,000 gallons per day, have been destroyed 
in A'irgitiia. Tiie officers visited seven counties 
in t wenty-three days, and traveled 2,000 miles. 
Eight hundred gallons of apple brandy were con¬ 
fiscated. 
North Carolina. 
On Dio 91 ji the coal was Liken from tho Cuba 
at Wilmington so that she should not run away. 
She had ou board only enough for about eight 
hours' consumption. 
The gunboat Frolic arrived at Wilmington on 
thellth, and the commander notified Commo¬ 
dore Higgins of Dm Cuba, not to leave port 
until his case had been decided. He said he had 
Instructions from the President to prevent, his 
departure. The ease of tho Cuba came up be- 
fore Commissioner Rutherford the same day, 
and Commodore Higgins made affidavit that the 
ship was purchased by the Cuban Republic out¬ 
side the jurisdiction of the United States, after 
she had cleared from a British port. Tiie coun¬ 
sel for the Government asked for a delay until 
Saturday, the 18tli, which was granted. 
The flour, grist and saw-mills, together with 
the cotton-gin building of William S. Battle, 
located at the falls of Tar River, near Rocky 
Mount, wore burned on Die 71 h Inst, and entirely 
consumed, wit h their contents, consisting of 00 
bales of cotton, 1,500 bushela of wheat, and 1,200 
bushels of corn. Loss $25,000; DO Insurance. 
Georgia. 
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution learns that 
Northern capitalists propose to invest $100,000 in 
a cotton factory t here, provided another $100,000 
can bo raised in the city. 
For the seven days ending October 5th, 8,035 
bales of cotton wore received at Macon, 1,997 
bales for storage and sale there. 
Florida. 
The steamship Lilian is said to have sailed 
from Cedar Keys, without being molested, with 
her freight and passengers for tho Cuban revo¬ 
lutionists. 
Tho New Orleans Times of the 7th inst. re¬ 
ports the arrival ut Pensacola of the last, missing 
boat, of tho Trade AVind, which was lost, at sea 
Sept. 24th. It was picked up by the schooner 
Abbio E. Campbell. 
Louisiana. 
The total collections of Internal Revenue at 
New Orleans, for September, were $125,927, a 
gain of $70,107 over tho corresponding month of 
1868. 
Tennessee. 
Governor Sf,ntnk*s mPK-ago to the new Leg¬ 
islature urges strongly the ratification of the 
Fifteenth Amendment; rays the interest ol Ten¬ 
nessee would be furthered thereby, and the peo¬ 
ple voted for it; urges a continuation of the free 
school system and comments upon its good 
effects; scouts repudiation: and ad visas the sale 
of delinquent railroads to enhance the value of 
the State-bonds, and asks for action to encourage 
emigration. 
Bills has been introduced in the Legislature to 
disqualify negroes as jurors, and to repeal Die 
School law and abolish County Superintendents 
of Education. 
Joseph Dunn, a backman, was killed a few 
days ago at Memphis by J. M. Harris, a young 
lawyer. Dunn was assaulting Harris at tho time. 
Kentucky. 
The Commercial Convention at Louisville, was 
called to order on the 12th by Ex-Lieu tenant- 
Govemor Anderson, formerly of Ohio. The nd- 
dressof welcome was made by Governor Steven¬ 
son, and cx-PrcsIdcnt Fillmore was chosen as 
the presiding officer. The Convention completed 
its permanent organization on the 13th iust., and 
appointed a number of working committees. 
The subject of the protection of labor was made 
tho order of business. A resolution of respect to 
the memory of Ex-President Pierce was unani¬ 
mously adopted. 
AVayne County, has lost by deat h four very old 
persons within a few weeks. One was eighty- 
six years old, two one hundred and eight each, 
and the fourth nearly one hundred. Of one of 
them it is related that ho was never known to 
ride on horseback, although the owner of horses 
35,000 majority. The Legislature will stand: 
8enato—Republicans. 42; Democrats, 8. House- 
Republicans, 85; Democrats, 16. 
IfflMonri. 
In 1883, Dr. Ebcn Swift, a surgeon in the Uni¬ 
ted States Army, was traveling with his family 
on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, when 
the whole of his baggage. Instruments, &c M was 
lost, has obtained a judgment in the United 
States Circuit Court at St. Louis for $6,537.50. 
Kansas. 
Aboft six hundred setDors in the Cherokee 
Neutral Lands in this State have complained to 
Governor Harvey of the presence of the United 
States troops there, and have asked him to se¬ 
cure their withdrawal, and to call a special ses¬ 
sion of tho Legislature that the real truth in 
regard to these troubles may be set forth. 
Arkansas. 
A man named Fox, while intoxicated, made 
an assault upon the conductor of the train from 
Little Rock on the 9th inst. Fox was killed by 
the conductor in self-defense. 
California. 
Jitdok SAWYER of tho District Court at San 
Francisco, lias decided that Chinese testimony is 
admissible in tho Courts, under the provisions of 
the Fourteenth Amendment. 
The French ship Malabar is reported to have 
been seized for a violation of the Revenue laws 
on the Pacific coast, and taken to $an Francisco. 
The corner-stone of the State University of 
California is to bo laid on tho 1st of November. 
The fishing fleet In the Ocbotsk Sea arc doing 
well, notwithstanding previous reports to the 
contrary. A schooner which arrived at San 
Francisco on Die 3d inst. with 52.000 corltlsh, re¬ 
ported the following vessels and their catch up 
to date of sailing:—Bark Domingo, 85,000 fish; 
bark Legal Tender,54,000; schooner Wild Pigeon, 
75,000; and the schooner Mary A. Bead, 69,000. 
Oregon. 
The State Fair opened at Portland on the 12th 
inst. with the best, exhibition of live stock and 
productions of all kinds over made in Oregon. 
Nevada. 
The liabilities Of the First National Bank of 
Nevada are said to be $200,000, mainly duo to resi¬ 
dents of t he State of Nevada. 
Utah. 
A r ice* Purs id ent Colfax was serenaded in 
Salt Lake City on the 5th inst., and in his speech 
proved from Die Book of Mormon that polygamy 
was unwise anil illegal, and ought to be abol¬ 
ished. Governor Itross of Illinois followed him 
in the same strain. Jt is said Dial, such freedom 
of speech has never been exercised in Dint city 
before. 
A large meeting of Mormons was held at Dio 
Tabernacle in Salt Lake City on the 9th iust., at 
which a memorial to Congress was adopted ask¬ 
ing to be admitted into tho Union as a State. 
Utah now claims a population of 150,000. 
Wyoming. 
The Wyoming Territorial Legislature met on 
tiie 12th inst., and L. D. Marvin of Laramie and 
John Herrick of Albany counties were respec¬ 
tively elected to pit-side in the two brauches. 
Tlte Indiana. 
Indian hostlliDes lent- again broken out in 
Idaho, and, at the request of tiie agents there, 
tho Secretary of the Interior ho? asked that ad¬ 
ditional 1 roops be sont to them. The free dlstri- 
bution of whisky among the Indians by white 
traders, and subsequent cheating at trade, origi¬ 
nally caused ail the trouble. Similar troubles 
are reported in Dakota. 
The Indians in Dakota are reported as de¬ 
moralized by the introduction of whisky, and 
more troops are asked for to keep them in order. 
General Duncan reports victories on Die Repub¬ 
lican lttver, and General Augur has arrived at 
Cheyenne with a deputation of chiefs. 
Dominion ol Canada. 
A Canadian paper reports that since Prince 
Arthur landed at Halifax he has received and re¬ 
plied to one hundred and fifty-nine addresses, 
attended one hundred and five public dinners 
and thirty-nine balls, danced with three hundred 
and forty partners, received 1,700 bouquets, 
shaken 15,000 hands, shot one hundrod and fifty 
head of game, given sixty-nine presents, traveled 
4,500 miles, been elected an Indian chief, and lias 
hoard “ God bless him 1" 2,000,000 i imes. 
7 1 ho Royal proclamation for Die transferor Die 
Northwest, Territory to the Dominion, it is said, 
will be issued us soon ns bir John Rose arrives in 
England. He is instructed to pay £300,000 to tho 
Hudson's Bay Company, without waiting for a 
Joan to be raised. 
Sir Francis Ilinks has been sworn in as Finaneo 
Minister ol the Dominion of Canada, taking the 
place of Sir John Rose, recently resigned. 
On Sunday, lUelOth inst.,on St. Maurice River, 
Province of Quebec, a scow, in which were t wen- 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Die greater pari of Ids life. As Kentuckians are ty mon an <i , lS many horses, in crossing from 
famous as horseback riders this is certainly a 
pretty big st ory. 
Ohio. 
The State election occurred on Tuesday, the 
12th inst., and resulted in the re-elect iou of Gov¬ 
ernor Hayea by some 10,000majority. The Legis¬ 
lature will bo Republican by a small majority. 
Jacob Goodman, of Buffaln.n.clothing peddler, 
was murdered by his assistant, Bonnet Negotia, 
who was wit h him in his wagon, near New-Haven, 
Huron County, on Saturday theOth inst., in plain 
sight of a farmhouse. The weapon used was a 
piece of railroad iron picked up in Die road. 
NegoDu fled, but was pursued and arrested, and 
$350 belonging to Goodman found in his pos¬ 
session. 
Ata*ball in Cincinnati, on Monday night the 
11th inst., given by tho Italians in that city in 
commemoration of tiie discovery of America by 
Columbus, Airs. Angeline Podista, one hundred 
and one years old, led off in the festivities and 
danced in ten sets. 
Illinois. 
Admiral Farhaout 1ms been very sick at 
Chicago with congestive chills. At one time he 
was pronounced out. of danger, but. on tho 14th 
inst. had a dangerous relapse, and was not ex¬ 
pected lo live at the time of our latest advices. 
Wisconuln. 
The office cif tho Rock River Insurance Com¬ 
pany at Beloit, was broken into on the 2d inst., 
and $15,000 in Government bonds stolen, belong¬ 
ing to tho Treasurer, J. A. Chapman, and $20,000 
ia notes, the property of the Company. 
Iowa. 
At the State election held on Tuesday, the 12th 
inst., Governor Merrill was re-elected by about 
Point Chateau to Point Dore, was upset, causing 
the drowning of fifteen of the men and all the 
horses. 
Considerable excitement is felt throughout 
Canada, owing to the fact that the volunteer 
force in Montreal and Toronto have been or¬ 
dered out for immediate service. Tiie cause for 
this sudden action ou the part of the Govern¬ 
ment is unknown. 
A St. Joint, N. B., dispatch of tiie 10th inst. 
says that Die groat storm was very destructive 
between Fedcrioton and St, John. More than 
fifty houses and barns were unroofed or wholly 
destroyed, and many orchards were greatly 
damaged. Senator McLcllan estimates the loss 
in Albert. County at $500,000. The report, of tho 
findingof one hundred and fifty bodies at Graod 
Monan is believed to be untrue. 
The Ontario Chemical Works at London, Ont., 
were destroyed by fire on the 12th. Tiie loss was 
$15,000 and the insurance $8,000. 
Theschooner Minnehaha, from Toledo,sprung 
a leak about one mile east of Port Stanley, Out., 
on the night of the 11th, and sunk. Iler crew 
were saved. 
South America. 
The famous American clipper ship Dread¬ 
nought, foundered off Cape Pinas while endeav¬ 
oring to round Capo Horn on tho morning of 
July 4th. She sank so rapidly that the crew of 
thirty-four men had barely time to lower the 
boats and pull off. They were without provis¬ 
ions seventeen days, and lived on shell fish and 
such other food as they could find. They were 
picked up by the Norwegian bark Gen. Birch. 
Dispatches from Buenos Ayres to Sept. 0 state 
that Lopez has turned up again, this time at San 
Estaoislaus, with 2,000 men and twenty cannon. 
Great Britain. 
The London Timcsof the 8th inst., in an article 
on the state of Europe, calls attention to a para¬ 
graph in the Vienna Pressc, which hints on a 
probable disarmament, and says the news is too 
i good to bo truo. 
A large meeting was held in London, nnd an¬ 
other one in Dublin, on the 10th, composed of 
those favorable to Fenian amnesty. 
The funeral of the Fenian Martin, who died in 
King’s College Hospital on the 5t h inst., was at¬ 
tended, in London, on the 10th, by six thousand 
persons. 
Tiie Times on the 12th in an editorial on finan¬ 
cial matters in tho United States, regards the 
recent panic as a mere struggle nf gamblers 
magnified into an affair of national importance 
by an act of tho Government, and thinks that 
although the leasou will not bo lost, still it would 
have been more impressive if more severe. 
France. 
The London Times of the 9th inst., in an edi¬ 
torial on France, commends the moderation of 
M. Keratry and his colleagues, and consider* it 
an evidence that the country can control itsewn 
destinies. The writer thinks the opposition now 
combines three great elements of strength- 
union, method and patience. 
A serious riot ia reported lo have taken place 
on Die 6th among Die minersof Die Orleans Rail¬ 
way Company in the Department of Aveyron, 
France. Tiie riot lasted three days, and many 
acts of violence were committed. On the 8th 
the mob was dispersed by the military, ten of 
them killed and quiet restored. 
Father Hyacinthe has left Paris for the United 
States, where he intends to remain for a few 
months. 
An attempt todisporac a public mooting which 
was being held on Sunday, the 10th, in theorrwi- 
dUscment of Belleville, is said to have occasioned 
a riot, and before order was restored several of 
the rioters were wounded. 
Turkey. 
The Empress Eugenie has reached Constanti¬ 
nople. She landed from the Imperial French 
yacht. Aigie, and was received by the Sultan with 
most imposing and magnificent ceremonies. 
The waters of the Bosphorus were covered with 
boats gaily decorated, and the banks were crowd¬ 
ed with spectators. 
The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will 
leave Vienna for the East, on the 24th inst., and 
is to meet Eugenio at Constantinople, when they, 
together with the Sultan, are to proceed loSuez, 
to be present at tho opening of tho canal. Tho 
fleets of the three Sovereigns will accompany 
them on their voyage to the Isthmus. 
Spain. 
Madrid dispatches of the fith inst. report sev¬ 
eral encounters in Catalonia between tho Gov¬ 
ernment and insurgents. The Mayor of Totosa 
heads a hand of Republicans. Valentin and 
Galicia were reported quiet. Paris dispatches 
state that the insurgents arc everywhere de¬ 
feated. 
A conference was held on the 7th between 
General Prim and President Itivercs, and Depu¬ 
ties Caste liar nnd Figuera, but nothing was ac¬ 
complished. 
The Anti-Slavery Societies of France and Eng¬ 
land have addressed Marshal Serrano on Dio 
subject of slavory, asking that it maybe abol¬ 
ished in Cuba. 
Madrid advices of Die 9th state that 1,900 in¬ 
surgent have surrendered to General Baldrfek. 
A sharp fight is reported in Saragossa, in which 
much blood was shed. The volunteers in Gra¬ 
nada have refused to disarm, and escaped to the 
open country. Tiie insurgents near Vails had 
thrown a railway train, filled with troops, from 
the track, by which four soldiers wero killed 
and many wounded. 
The cablegrams of tho Hth report fresh dis¬ 
turbances in Valencia and at La Carolina and 
Gaudesa, but in Aragon, Andalusia and Catalo¬ 
nia affairs looked better for tho Government. 
The reoent surrender to General Baldriok is 
officially stated, and Deputies Noquora and Pala¬ 
cios are said to liave given in their submission to 
tiie Government. Quiet is said to have been re¬ 
stored in Saragossa, and tho capture is reported, 
at Ibi, of two insurgent leaders, Cabecillo and 
Carbajal, who were both shot. 
A band of Spanish Republicans is reported to 
have been defeated on the loth in the northern 
part of Catalonia by Die regular troops. Tiie 
insurgents fled into French territory, whore they 
were arrested by the authorities. 
Paris advices of the 12th report fighting in Va¬ 
lencia and defeat of tiie Republicans, ilie procla¬ 
mation of the Republic at Malaga and Vallado¬ 
lid, and disorders in Madrid which liave been 
been quelled. Scnor CusteUar, the celebrated 
Republican leader in the Cortes, has lied to 
Portugal from .Saragossa, having been Dncat- 
cuod with assassination there; Suner, another 
Republican loader, lias lied to France, having 
been abandoned by hi* partisans, and Saler ha* 
been killed. 
From Madrid on the 13th, we learn that Gov¬ 
ernment officials declare that the rebellion is 
dying out, but the Republicans contradict them 
and maintain that it is increasing. The inter¬ 
ruption of communication renders it difficult tq 
obtain in formation from Die Provinces; but 
there is no doubt that the insurrection extends 
throughout the country. 
The Cortes has appointed a committee to in¬ 
quire into the conduct of deputies who are sup¬ 
posed to be with the insurgents, and to report 
what action shall be taken in their cases. 
The railroad in the vicinity of Valencia has 
been destroyed. A fight took place near the spot, 
in which two hundred and fifty men were killed 
aud wounded on both sides. 
Twelve thousand men of the regular army, with 
forty pieces ol cannon wero in position before 
Valencia on the 14th. The insurgents, aware of 
the power of this force, asked permission to 
capitulate, but the official authorities; as well as 
the officer* commanding for tbo Executive, de¬ 
mand an unconditional surrender. 
The Government in Madrid has resolved to dis¬ 
arm the Republican volunteers and dismiss all 
Republican officials and municipal councillors 
from office. 
Cablegrams of tiie 14th areThe town of Be¬ 
gan forty-five miles south of SaUunanca, has re¬ 
volted, and the inhabitants are flying from tiie 
place. A detachment of troops has been sent 
thither to restore order. 
Six thousand rebels have submitted to the Gov¬ 
ernment officers in Tarragona and Barcelona and 
Vicinity. 
The Republican leaders, Paul aud Salvochea 
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